Gentle, unhurried newborn photography at home, led entirely by your baby.
Newborn sessions start from the current session rate and are best booked for your baby's first two to three weeks, at your own home, anywhere across Lancashire. That window matters. In those first days babies still curl into the shape they held in the womb and sleep deeply enough to be moved gently from one position to another. By about three weeks they wake more, stretch out and are far harder to settle, and the photographs change accordingly.
Because nobody can predict a due date, the sensible approach is to book while you are still pregnant, around 30 to 34 weeks, and then keep the fortnight after your date loose. I would rather hold a flexible slot than have you ring me from a hospital ward trying to arrange a diary.
Allow two to three hours. That sounds like a lot for a sleeping baby and it is exactly right, because most of it is feeding, changing, winding and settling. There is no schedule to keep to. If your baby wants a forty-minute feed in the middle, that is the session going well, not badly.
On safety: nothing I do requires a baby to be balanced, suspended or propped up in a way that only looks safe because two photographs were blended together afterwards. The poses stay simple, a parent's hands stay within reach, and if your baby dislikes something we stop and try something else. There is no shot on any list that is worth pushing a nine-day-old through.
What you do not need is a tidy house, a finished nursery or a box of props. I work near your biggest window, usually late morning, and the rest of the room can be chaos.
I come to you, which for a two-week-old is much kinder than a car journey to a studio. Leyland, Preston, Chorley, the Ribble Valley and further afield across the county are all covered. Season is irrelevant for a newborn shoot, since it is an indoor session, but light is not: a window on a bright overcast day is the best light there is, and Lancashire supplies plenty of those.
Your gallery arrives well inside the six weeks I promise for weddings, delivered online to view and download, with 15% off prints and albums. Many families follow a newborn shoot with a cake smash at the first birthday, and if you are booking before the birth, a maternity session pairs naturally with this one. There are also family sessions once you are out of the newborn fog, and couples shoots for the two of you. Read more about how I work, or get in touch.
The first two to three weeks. Babies that age still curl into the shapes they held in the womb and sleep deeply enough to be moved gently between positions. After about three weeks they wake more, stretch out and become harder to settle, which changes the pictures completely.
Newborn sessions are priced on enquiry . which includes the session at your home and a gallery of fully edited images with nothing charged per photograph.
Allow two to three hours, and expect to use most of it. Feeding, changing and settling take as long as they take, and a session that is rushed to fit an hour is a session where the baby is unsettled in every frame.
Nothing I do requires a baby to be balanced, suspended or propped in a position that only looks safe because of editing. Poses stay simple and natural, a parent's hands are always within reach, and if your baby objects to something we stop doing it. The baby leads and I follow.
A warm room, warmer than feels comfortable for you, since newborns settle better in the heat. Plain bedding without patterns, a stack of muslins, spare vests, and a full feed just before I arrive. Nothing else. You do not need props or a nursery that looks like a magazine.
Yes, and I would do them first while everyone is fresh. Sibling frames take five minutes at the start, then the older ones can go and play while we carry on with the baby. Dogs are welcome too.
Send me your due date and I will pencil in the fortnight after it.
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